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Seek Taxon Notes Nov 3

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+ NA Mammal data taxon priorities
+ * Smithsonian MSW data - must find out how to interpret it
+ * Want to automate specimen data markup with algorithms, then have taxonomist check data
+ * put lots of data into Taxon cache
+ * expand matching algorithms
+ * plug into Ecogrid
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+ Criteria
+ * follow changes over time
+ * authoritative sources point to concepts
+ * Ed can provide checklists (American Fishery Society) with changes over time (every 10 years) - we would need to link changes
+ * Bob - plants - checklists
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+ [DevelopmentTasksNov2004]
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+ __Miscellaneous notes from thau__
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+ information in versioning systems have:
+ *public versions
+ *private versions
+ *working versions
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+ might be nice to incorporate this notion into the lsid server
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+ questions that come up when looking at browser tools
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+ * who are the users?
+ * what visual representions do the users want? tree, graph, touch-graph?
+ * what work are we trying to make more efficient and how is that work done?
+ * what is the relationship between the visualization and editing tool?
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+ note from jessie on point 2 - we found that taxonomists like trees, even though the underlying data model is a graph I published on this
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